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APPARATUS FOR SECURING FISH UPON WIRES IN REGULAR ROWS.

,033. Patented Apr. 26,1898.

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EDVARD ANDERSEN, OF STAVANGER, NOBFVAY.

APPARATUS FOR SECURING FISH UPON WIRES IN REGULAR ROWS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 603,033, dated April26, 1898.

A plication filed. December 31, 1897. Serial No. 665,206. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDVARD ANDERSEN, policeman, a subject of the King ofSweden and Norway, and a resident of Stavanger, Norway, have inventedcertain new and useful Apparatus for Securing Fish upon Wires in RegularRows, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an apparatus for a quick, practical, and on thewhole a rational way of drawing fish, particularly sprat and smallherring,on wire for the purpose of smoking or for other purposes.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure1 is a plan view of part of the apparatus, the so-called lock being letdown or opened. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, the lock having beenlifted up or closed. Fig. 3 is an end view of the same in a section onthe line a: as, Fig. 1, the lock having been opened, and on an enlargedscale. Fig. 4 is the same section, the lock being closed.

The apparatus consists of a table or a plate a, that may be placed onthe bottom of a barrel or another suitable stand. One or all the edgesof this table are fitted with arrangements which effect an eventhreading of the fish on a wire and which form the threading apparatusproper. The more of these threading apparatuses that are connected withthe table a the greater, of course, the number of persons that may workat the table.

I) is a number of wedge-formed knobs whose pointed ends are turnedtoward the table, Fig. 1. A cross-piece 0, Figs. 3 and 4, is fastened tothe edge of the table underneath these knobs, and the so-called look isfitted to this cross-piece. The lock consists of a list cl, fixed to thecross-piece c and fitted with a row of vertical tapering notches e,falling between each of the knobs b, as will be seen from Figs. 1 and 2.Through all the notches along the cross-piece 0 passes an elastic ribbonf, of india-rubber. To the list or part d there is, by means of hingesg, connected a similar part or flap h, with tapering notches eanalogouswith the notches e and corresponding to these when the lock isclosed. By these means there is formed a row of holes consisting of thenotches 6 6 and in these holes, Fig. 4, the fish is placed, having beencarried forward by the workman for his hand singly between the knobs Z),head downward.

z is a plate of zinc which, fastened outside to the upper part of thepart h when the lock is closed, Fig. 4., will place itself against therow of knobs b and hold in its position the fish that is successivelybeing pushed down.

A; is an angle-iron running along the notches e and falling into a slitin these. The angleiron is connected with the part it by means of hingesZ, Figs. 2, 3, and 4. Then the fish is being put in, this angle-iron isopened out, (see the dotted line, Fig. 4,) but when the whole row isfull the angle-iron is pushed in, thereby pressing the whole row offishes against the elastic ribbon f. By this means all the heads of thefishes get in a straight line. This having been done, a wire is pushedthrough the groove m, that runs through the whole row of notches, andall the fishes are in an easy manner symmetrically and quickly threadedon the wire. As may be plainly seen from Fig. 3, the groove m is formedby two corresponding seniicylindrical slits in the parts d and h.

The filled wire is afterward removed from the apparatus, the part 71having been let down. (See Fig. 3.)

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. An apparatus for threading fish onwire comprising separable clamping members to hold and aline the headsof the fish, said members having an aperture between them through whicha wire maybe passed, substantially as described.

2. In combination, the parts dand h adapted to be separated and havingan opening between them for receiving a threading-wire for engaging thefish and the elastic ribbon f against which the fish hear when the partsare brought together, substantially as described.

3. In a fish-threading device, a table, a se ries of knobs projectingtherefrom and means for holding the fish in the notches formed betweenthe said knobs, apertures being left for the introduction of a wire,substantially as described.

4. A threading device for fish comprising ence of two Witnesses, this11th dayofDeceInthe socketed part to receive the fish sepaber,41897.

rately with their heads in line and apertured to receive athreading-Wire, substantially as EDVARD ANDERSEN' 5 described.Witnesses:

.In testimony that I claim the foregoing as OLE INGELVEOHT NELLIESEN,

my invention I have signed my name in pres- OLE KNUDHEN.

